The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of adolescent use of instant messaging. Grounded in the New Literacy Studies stance that literacy is a social practice embedded in local contexts and informed by global ideologies (Street, 1995), I argue that participation in digital literacies such as instant messaging has implications for…

Offers a discussion of audience representation versus self-representation in the study of writing. Discusses hypertext, Web pages, hub pages, and links. Probes how writers represent themselves in the way they structure links in hypertext documents on their Web sites. (CR)

Reflections on the solitary, personal experience of reading and writing contrasted to the "rampant technocapitalism" of the computer presentation of data. Technology may have reconfigured reading; written language; and the publication, distribution, promotion, and place of books, but as long as there is concern for imaginative…